diff --git a/Lib/tempfile.py b/Lib/tempfile.py
index 0785d80996e..8f8743c4c4e 100644
--- a/Lib/tempfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tempfile.py
@@ -539,7 +539,12 @@ class SpooledTemporaryFile:
 
     @property
     def encoding(self):
-        return self._file.encoding
+        try:
+            return self._file.encoding
+        except AttributeError:
+            if 'b' in self._TemporaryFileArgs['mode']:
+                raise
+            return self._TemporaryFileArgs['encoding']
 
     def fileno(self):
         self.rollover()
@@ -553,18 +558,26 @@ class SpooledTemporaryFile:
 
     @property
     def mode(self):
-        return self._file.mode
+        try:
+            return self._file.mode
+        except AttributeError:
+            return self._TemporaryFileArgs['mode']
 
     @property
     def name(self):
-        return self._file.name
+        try:
+            return self._file.name
+        except AttributeError:
+            return None
 
     @property
     def newlines(self):
-        return self._file.newlines
-
-    def next(self):
-        return self._file.next
+        try:
+            return self._file.newlines
+        except AttributeError:
+            if 'b' in self._TemporaryFileArgs['mode']:
+                raise
+            return self._TemporaryFileArgs['newline']
 
     def read(self, *args):
         return self._file.read(*args)
@@ -605,9 +618,6 @@ class SpooledTemporaryFile:
         self._check(file)
         return rv
 
-    def xreadlines(self, *args):
-        return self._file.xreadlines(*args)
-
 
 class TemporaryDirectory(object):
     """Create and return a temporary directory.  This has the same
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tempfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tempfile.py
index 2b8f0963d1d..b0c3b4b3de0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tempfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tempfile.py
@@ -745,6 +745,26 @@ class TestSpooledTemporaryFile(BaseTestCase):
         seek(0, 0)
         self.assertEqual(read(70), b'a'*35 + b'b'*35)
 
+    def test_properties(self):
+        f = tempfile.SpooledTemporaryFile(max_size=10)
+        f.write(b'x' * 10)
+        self.assertFalse(f._rolled)
+        self.assertEqual(f.mode, 'w+b')
+        self.assertIsNone(f.name)
+        with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
+            f.newlines
+        with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
+            f.encoding
+
+        f.write(b'x')
+        self.assertTrue(f._rolled)
+        self.assertEqual(f.mode, 'rb+')
+        self.assertIsNotNone(f.name)
+        with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
+            f.newlines
+        with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
+            f.encoding
+
     def test_text_mode(self):
         # Creating a SpooledTemporaryFile with a text mode should produce
         # a file object reading and writing (Unicode) text strings.
@@ -755,6 +775,12 @@ class TestSpooledTemporaryFile(BaseTestCase):
         f.write("def\n")
         f.seek(0)
         self.assertEqual(f.read(), "abc\ndef\n")
+        self.assertFalse(f._rolled)
+        self.assertEqual(f.mode, 'w+')
+        self.assertIsNone(f.name)
+        self.assertIsNone(f.newlines)
+        self.assertIsNone(f.encoding)
+
         f.write("xyzzy\n")
         f.seek(0)
         self.assertEqual(f.read(), "abc\ndef\nxyzzy\n")
@@ -762,6 +788,11 @@ class TestSpooledTemporaryFile(BaseTestCase):
         f.write("foo\x1abar\n")
         f.seek(0)
         self.assertEqual(f.read(), "abc\ndef\nxyzzy\nfoo\x1abar\n")
+        self.assertTrue(f._rolled)
+        self.assertEqual(f.mode, 'w+')
+        self.assertIsNotNone(f.name)
+        self.assertEqual(f.newlines, '\n')
+        self.assertIsNotNone(f.encoding)
 
     def test_text_newline_and_encoding(self):
         f = tempfile.SpooledTemporaryFile(mode='w+', max_size=10,
@@ -770,11 +801,19 @@ class TestSpooledTemporaryFile(BaseTestCase):
         f.seek(0)
         self.assertEqual(f.read(), "\u039B\r\n")
         self.assertFalse(f._rolled)
+        self.assertEqual(f.mode, 'w+')
+        self.assertIsNone(f.name)
+        self.assertIsNone(f.newlines)
+        self.assertIsNone(f.encoding)
 
         f.write("\u039B" * 20 + "\r\n")
         f.seek(0)
         self.assertEqual(f.read(), "\u039B\r\n" + ("\u039B" * 20) + "\r\n")
         self.assertTrue(f._rolled)
+        self.assertEqual(f.mode, 'w+')
+        self.assertIsNotNone(f.name)
+        self.assertIsNotNone(f.newlines)
+        self.assertEqual(f.encoding, 'utf-8')
 
     def test_context_manager_before_rollover(self):
         # A SpooledTemporaryFile can be used as a context manager
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 228d18a7a0d..bc278918b03 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -241,6 +241,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #10355: In SpooledTemporaryFile class mode, name, encoding and
+  newlines properties now work for unrolled files.  Obsoleted and never
+  working on Python 3 xreadline method now removed.
+
 - Issue #16686: Fixed a lot of bugs in audioop module.  Fixed crashes in
   avgpp(), maxpp() and ratecv().  Fixed an integer overflow in add(), bias(),
   and ratecv().  reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose precision for